States are Taking Matters into their Own Hands

Employers face increasing pressure to verify worker identityStates, with Arizona in the lead, are also going after employers for hiring practices, threatening to revoke business licenses if employers do not make a serious effort to verify their workers' identities.

Lawmakers' feelings mixed on immigration billMississippi bill mandates that employers use the e-verify system, a free Internet database ran by the Department of Homeland Security in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to check a potential employee's work eligibility.

Misspissippi Passes Employer Sanctions Bill Which Criminalizes Unlawful EmploymentThe Mississippi Employment Protection Act requires all employers in the state to use E-Verify.

SC Governor expressed concern about pitfall immigration billGov. favors requiring private employers to check South Carolina driver's licenses, a new S.C. version of the I-9, or to use the online E-Verify system. He noted that five states already use E-Verify: Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri and Georgia.

Measure targeting illegals shapedThe final version of South Carolina’s illegal immigration reform plan could be completed soon.

Missouri business groups fret over E-Verify billsBusinesses that don't use E-Verify and hire illegal immigrants would be punished more severely than those that do use the system.

Hearing Tuesday on Suffolk County, NY contractor lawLaw that requires contractors doing business with the county to confirm employees' legal status.

UPS crackdown hits workers, spares businessA year after Washington state work-site raids, fully two-thirds of the 51 illegal immigrants arrested have either been deported or told to leave the country. But no charges have been brought against the employment agency that hired the immigrants or UPS, where they worked.